What would it take for a man to have the courage to escape on foot into a blizzard like this with no weapons and no warm clothes?
Smoke moved through the night as fast as he could, considering the snowstorm made the darkness almost absolute and he was running through snow that was getting deeper by the minute. It was only his excellent night vision that kept him from breaking an ankle or impaling himself on a tree limb in the heavy forest.
Knowing the storm was coming almost directly out of the north, he realized all he had to do to keep on track was to keep the wind directly in his face. That way he avoided traveling in circles as most inexperienced men did when moving in unfamiliar territory.
Smoke knew the mountain ranges all around them were closest directly to the north, and getting up into the High Lonesome was his only chance to avoid the men who would surely be on his trail no later than daybreak. The closest mountain was about seven miles away, and he had absolutely no chance to make it before daylight, not on foot traveling through darkness in snow that was rapidly getting up to his mid-calves.
His only weapon was a five-inch clasp knife, and he was completely without any other supplies or food. He laughed out loud into the freezing north wind. Only a mountain man, and a crazy one at that, would think that he had any chance at all against more than a dozen well-armed men on horseback on his trail under these conditions.
Well, this crazy old mountain man still had a few tricks up his sleeve, and if he could keep from freezing to death long enough, he’d show them a thing or two. Then, it would be time to pay them back.
Other Mountain Man books by
William W. Johnston
THE LAST MOUNTAIN MAN
RETURN OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
TRAIL OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
REVENGE OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
LAW OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
JOURNEY OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
WAR OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
CODE OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
PURSUIT OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
COURAGE OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
BLOOD OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
FURY OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
RAGE OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
CUNNING OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
POWER OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
SPIRIT OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
ORDEAL OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
TRIUMPH OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
VENGEANCE OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
HONOR OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
BATTLE OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
PRIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
CREED OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
GUNS OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
HEART OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
JUSTICE OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
VALOR OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
WARPATH OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
TREK OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
QUEST OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
WILLIAM W. JOHNSTONE
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